Samsung Four Seasons of Hope Gala dinner : Samsung’s Four Seasons of Hope announced the guest performer and special guest for the sixth annual Samsung’s Four Seasons of Hope gala dinner at New York’s Cipriani Wall Street. “Live with Regis and Kelly” host Regis Philbin will be back to join Samsung for his third gala, and Grammy award winning Alicia Keys will give an exclusive special performance. The event will raise funds for The Alicia Keys Family Foundation and the charities affiliated with Samsung's Four Seasons of Hope. “I’m thrilled to be back to join Samsung's Four Seasons of Hope, which brings together such an impressive group of people who are helping with so many worthy causes,” said Philbin.

Samsung LCD TVs at SID 2007 : Samsung Electronics is exhibiting two of its leading display products, as well as a few highly promising concept prototypes at the 45th annual Society for Display (SID) 2007 exhibition being held here May 22-24. Samsung is exhibiting the 40” LCD TV with LED backlight that has been awarded this year’s SID Gold Award for Display of the Year. The 40-inch LED-backlit display delivers a contrast ratio of 10,000:1, which is five times higher than that of LCD panels with a CCFL backlight. Color saturation is also 105% of the NTSC standard. These improvements are helping to put LCD TVs with an LED backlight into the market mainstream, and the award recognizes this fact.

Samsung mobile digital TV broadcasting : Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced at NAB 2006 (followed by a live demonstration with handheld devices at the International Consumer Electronics Show (ICES) in January 2007) a new innovative technology that enables portable and mobile TV digital broadcasting in North America at very low cost, using broadcasters’ existing facilities and frequency spectrum. At NAB 2007, Samsung will not only demonstrate an A-VSB mode with twice the efficiency (using half the broadcasting bandwidth) compared to Samsung’s previous demonstration in January, but will also demonstrate the power of A-VSB’s Single Frequency Network (SFN) tool for the first time.

Samsung next-generation LCD Displays at CES 2007 : Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world’s largest provider of thin-film transistor, liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, will exhibit a comprehensive portfolio of next-generation LCD panels at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2007, which will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 8 through 11. The Samsung booth is located in the North Hall (N238, 240 and 242). Particularly noteworthy new Samsung panels include a double-sided 2.22” wide LCD that shows different images on both sides of the same screen for mobile applications, a 70” diagonal, full-HD LCD TV panel for the home, and an 82” diagonal, digital information display (DID) for public settings.